Are You Getting Your Daily D? It’s winter in Seattle. Sun exposure is limited and blood levels of vitamin D are dwindling. Supplementation is the only reasonable way to keep those levels propped up throughout the dark months. A capsule providing 5,000 IUs each day is sufficient to provide the immune support, mood elevating, bone

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To Snack or not to Snack: I am frequently asked whether snacking between meals is a good idea or not. Mainstream nutritional advice tells us in order to keep our metabolism revved up, 6 small meals spaced 2-3 hours apart is the optimum feeding schedule. Once again, the ancestral health community (and evolutionary history) will

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Sugar, Juice, and Artificial Sweeteners Many people know that eliminating sugar is healthy but are unsure whether artificial sweeteners are a harmless substitute.  While the only way to break a sweet-tooth or carb addiction is to remove the TASTE of sweet, you can make better choices when choosing to indulge in sweets.  Research is increasingly

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Question from E: I heard that the Paleo diet is too low sugar to be sustainable over a long period of time. Especially in the case of attempting to uphold a sustained level of higher level cognition and learning in the brain. what is an ‘appropriate’ amount of sugar for humans to consume? I was

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Wheat Breeding and the Rise in Celiac Disease An interesting paper published last fall (abstract here) proposed that the rise in Celiac disease and gluten sensitivity over the past several decades is likely a result of not only heightened awareness of the disease and better diagnostic tools, but also due to selective breeding of our wheat

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